Volkswagen Golf - Sedate family hatchback? You'd be wrong!

[Tetsuo_Shima]

I can't really see this being a car for the school run, but it is ultra-cool

Look at it!

Brumm!

0-60 in just 3.6 seconds, crazy! I'd love to roll this up beside a Ferrari, lure him into a false sense of security with the tame (I say tame, but only in the relative sense ) hatchback looks and blow it away!

 

[waterproofbob]

thats soooo damn cool. Hahahahahahah 3.6 from a hatchback. Be even more fun tbh to pull away next to a really smug tuned Porsche driver and not only beat them off the mark but completely destroy them. I do hate Porsche, horrible little tosser cars. Great find Tets. Brings back all kinds of feeling from driving me old mini, beating a BMW M3 from some traffic lights 3 times in a row, then having it sit behind me at 30 for the remainder of the journey. Except it that thing it could hold its own once you had to go over 30MPH. I want one.

 

[thatbloke]

Want that one

 

[Dragon]

Its a German car, what do you expect? xD

 

[Tetsuo_Shima]

A bit of national pride there from Dragon From German cars, you generally expect straight lines, modest styling and that everything works! Typically, they don't do hatchbacks dropped to the floor with mental engines and gigantic cow-catcher front air dams

 

[Pubic_Warrior]

ewwww the body kit on that makes it look ugly,

but i suppose looks arnt everything

 

[thatbloke]

ewwww the body kit on that makes it look ugly,

but i suppose looks arnt everything

How the hell is that car not the SEXIEST BEAST you have ever seen in your life?

 

[Tetsuo_Shima]

ewwww the body kit on that makes it look ugly,

but i suppose looks arnt everything

See, there's a difference here pubic.

This is an ugly body kit with faux-air dams (even on the skirts) and useless scoops that serve no purpose other than attempting to tart up the aesthetics.

This is a fully functional body kit where the massive skirt air dams feed airflow to the rear-mounted engine, and the exaggerated scoops try to maximise the downforce required to keep a hatchback glued to the tarmac at 180mph+. When you look at it in that light, I think it's awesome.

 

[BiG D]

Functional does not equal pretty, though.

It's quite possible that every last bit of that kit is calculated and necessary, but that doesn't mean it looks good.

 

[Tetsuo_Shima]

I thought that pubic was assuming the bodykit was aesthetic alone, I was just pointing out that it had a purpose in the W12's case. Whether you like it or not is, of course, up to you. I reckon it's pretty hot, mostly because it is a functional kit, much like a racecar. There are some cars that look a bit naff through functional form, like say the Ferrari Enzo.